Japan's Hardware War Feeling A Little Too Comfortable

The Japanese hardware market has found a groove, the PSP, Wii and Nintendo DS platform continuing to dominate that charts, the PSPgo untouchable in its abilities to hold tightly onto last place.

This week's tally of winners and losers in the Japanese console war looks remarkably like last week's (and the week before), making hardware sales watchers like me hungry for something new to come along and mix things up. Should Nintendo launch a fourth (or fifth) version of the Nintendo DS to sell to Japanese consumers? Should Sony raise the price of the PSPgo to drop sales of the platform even further? Will the Xbox 360 ever return to its former high point in Japan?

The answer to most of those questions is probably no. Get familiar with the platform placement with this week's hardware battle!

Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair.
This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most unexpected spank possible. We’re talking sneaking up behind each other in the hallway and laying one down that made the earth shake. If I couldn’t read your palm from the imprint, you weren’t doing a good enough job.